{"id":2021,"date":"2009-11-05T15:58:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T22:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2009-11-05T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T22:58:03","slug":"where-are-the-tornadoes-2009-tornado-reports-well-below-normal-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/where-are-the-tornadoes-2009-tornado-reports-well-below-normal-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the tornadoes? 2009 tornado reports well below normal levels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tornado activity so far in 2009 has been well below normal. This has researchers wondering what has happened to the tornadoes?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tornado activity in the United States for 2009 is reaching unusually low levels according to statistics from NOAA\u2019s Storm Prediction Center (SPC)<\/a>. By its latest count as of Sunday, November 1st, 1040 tornado reports have been received this year placing it in the 10th percentile since 1954 (see chart below).<\/p>\n

Tornadoes occur in every month on the calendar but 2009 started with far below normal numbers for the first three months of the year. As the traditional severe weather season approached during the spring, tornado numbers returned to near average but have since fallen into a decline.<\/p>\n

Similarly, tornado deaths in 2009 are far below the average. The three year running average from 2006 to 2008 saw an average of 91 fatalities per year. Over the longer term, the United States experiences 80 per year. Thus far in 2009 only 22 deaths have been reported as a result of twisters. There was nearly a five month period from May 13th to October 9th when there were no deaths at all recorded<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"There's<\/strong><\/a>Why so few tornadoes?\u00a0 For some possible answers and how this ties into global climate change, get the full story on Examiner.com.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tornado activity in the United States for 2009 is reaching unusually low levels according to statistics from NOAA\u2019s Storm Prediction Center (SPC). By its latest count as of Sunday, November 1st, 1040 tornado reports have been received this year placing it in the 10th percentile since 1954 (see chart below). Tornadoes occur in every month … Continue reading Where are the tornadoes? 2009 tornado reports well below normal levels<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}